PAN-HUMANITY 


BISHOP  J[ICHOLAI 

of  OCHRIDA,  SERBIA 


From 

H.  E.  EDMONDS 

2929  Broadway 


An  Address  delivered  at  the  Candle  Ceremony  of 
the  Intercollegiate  Cosmopolitan  Club  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  Sunday,  April  twenty-fourth,  1921. 

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INTRODUCTION 


By  PAUL  MONROE 

Director,  School  of  Education,  Teachers  College, 

Columbia  University 

DURING  recent  years  numerous  representatives  of  European  govern¬ 
ments  and  peoples  have  visited  the  United  States  for  the  purpose 
of  acquainting  the  American  people  with  their  problems,  aspirations,  and 
cultural  attainments.  No  one  has  come  with  so  idealistic  a  message, 
asking  so  little  and  giving  so  much,  as  the  author  of  this  address. 
Bishop  Nicholai’s  mission  was  primarily  to  give  an  interpretation  of  the 
spiritual  needs  of  Europe,  to  enlist  America’s  interest  and  support  in  the 
non-material  problems  confronting  the  European  peoples. 

Bishop  Nicholai  came  with  high  credentials.  As  a  representative 
of  Serbia  he  spoke  for  a  people  who  suffered  most  of  all  from  the  war.  As 
a  representative  of  the  Greek  Orthodox  Church  he  spoke  for  the  original 
Christian  organization — one  that  has  so  little  contact  with  the  American 
people  as  scarcely  to  be  known,  much  less  understood.  As  a  representa¬ 
tive  of  the  Slavic  race  he  spoke  with  the  idealism  of  a  great  race  whose 
purposes,  aims,  and  aspirations  are  presented  to  us  but  dimly  to  our  great 
confusion. 

Bishop  Nicholai  traveled  throughout  our  country,  speaking  before 
Universities  and  Colleges,  Commercial  Associations,  Rotary  Clubs, 
Churches  and  Ecclesiastical  Bodies.  The  address  here  printed  gives  a 
summary  of  his  impressions  and  his  message  in  epitome.  It  was  highly 
appropriate  that  it  should  have  been  delivered  before  the  Intercollegiate 
Cosmopolitan  Club  in  New  York,  constituting  a  student  representation 
of  65  nations.  More  than  600  students  banded  together  in  an  organization 
for  friendship,  mutual  acquaintance,  and  improvement,  and  for  the  better 
understanding  of  American  culture,  constitute  in  themselves  a  genuine 
League  of  Nations. 

It  was  also  appropriate  that  this  address  should  have  been  given  at 
the  Club’s  “Candle  Ceremony” — the  symbolic  occasion  when  the  repre¬ 
sentative  of  each  nation  passes  on  its  light  to  its  neighbor;  appropriate, 
let  us  hope,  in  that  the  United  States  may  become  the  candle  lighting 
the  way  to  a  larger  brotherhood  of  mankind  as  it  seeks  through  its 
Universities  to  afford  to  these  students  from  so  many  lands  the  light  of  a 
common  knowledge,  a  common  understanding,  and  a  common  good-will. 


Portrait  by  Clara  E.  Sipprell 


Bishop  Nicholai 


PAN-HUMANITY 


By  Bishop  Nicholai 


1FIND  myself  to-night  speaking  here  to  the  whole  world. 

Who  can  speak  to  the  world  except  him  who  loves  the 
world?  God  alone  can  do  it,  for  He  alone  really  loves  the 
world.  Let  us  be  gods  and  we  shall  be  able  to  say,  without 
speaking  a  lie:  we  love  humanity.  Christ  tried  His  hardest 
to  teach  men  that  they  are  gods,  being  the  sons  of  God. 
Europe  throughout  the  nineteenth  century  tried  her  hardest 
to  teach  men  that  they  are  animals  and  the  sons  of  animals. 
The  first  teaching  leads  to  love  of  humanity  and  peace;  the 
second  teaching  leads  to  disdain  of  humanity  and  war. 
Friends,  we  must  train  ourselves  systematically  for  love  of 
humanity:  first  we  must  get  to  have  compassion  with  suffer¬ 
ing  humanity,  then  we  must  get  to  respect  its  efforts  and 
struggles,  and  finally  out  of  compassion  and  respect  love  will 
be  born  in  our  hearts.  Compassion,  respect,  love.  For  either 
love  is  a  sweet  fruit  of  a  long  struggle  or  it  is  a  painted  fruit; 
that  is,  a  lie  on  too  many  lips. 

Love  is  light.  We  have  lit  this  evening  many  candles, 
though  still  it  is  daylight.  It  is  a  two-fold  symbol.  There 
is  physical  light  enough,  but  we  need  more  than  physical 
light.  And  each  nation  lights  its  candle,  even  the  most  unciv¬ 
ilized;  that  is,  each  nation  has  something  to  contribute  to  the 
light  of  our  soul.  For  if  it  did  not,  the  world  would  be  so 
much  darker. 

This  is  the  second  time  I  look,  looking  at  you,  into  the 
face  of  humanity.  The  first  time  was  on  the  Galata  Bridge 
in  Constantinople,  where  the  East  and  the  West  meet  in  the 


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inexhaustible  variety  of  types  and  colors.  And  now  here  in 
America — America  seems  to  me  a  Galata  Bridge  between  all 
the  continents. 

What  is  this  puzzle  called  America?  Is  it  a  nation?  No, 
it  is  more  than  that.  It  is  pan-humanity.  It  is  the  second 
home  of  all  of  us.  Therefore  we  all  must  help  America  in 
order  that  America  may  help  the  world. 

What  do  you  think  of  America?  Please  don’t  pass  your 
judgment  before  a  long  study  of  this  complicated  human 
organism.  I  assure  you  that  the  soul  of  America  is  even 
more  complex  than  the  external  civilization  of  it.  There  is 
no  city  in  the  world  in  which  you  can  find  your  orientation 
so  easily  as  in  New  York.  I  warn  you;  it  is  not  so  easy  to 
penetrate  into  the  soul  of  the  Americans.  Very  often  I  have 
found  out  that  they  themselves  do  not  understand  their  own 
soul.  Very  often  they  work  spontaneously  without  under¬ 
standing.  “How  do  you  like  America?’’  With  this  question 
you  are  overwhelmed  in  this  country.  Whether  you  answer, 
“I  like  it  very  much,”  or  “I  don’t  like  it  at  all,”  it  makes  no 
difference  to  them.  They  take  it  for  granted  that  you  like 
America ;  moreover,  that  you  are  charmed  with  America.  I 
never  saw  in  my  life  a  nation  believing  in  itself  as  does 
America.  We  all  believe  in  America,  but  I  pray  God  that 
America’s  belief  in  herself  should  never  become  a  self-conceit. 
An  Englishman  in  his  humbleness  often  would  say,  “I  am  so 
stupid.”  But  you  never  heard  an  American  say,  “I  am  stupid.” 

I  know  Europe  fairly  well.  Though  born  in  Serbia,  I  got 
my  education  in  England,  Germany,  Russia  and  Switzerland. 
Europe  is  a  house  divided  against  itself.  The  most  civilized 
nation  in  Europe  is  doubtless  the  English.  How  can  you 
prove  whether  a  person  or  a  nation  is  civilized?  Not  only 
by  the  external  achievements  and  constructions.  Here  is  a 
simple  proof:  Tread  upon  the  feet  of  an  Englishman  and  he 
will  excuse  himself  first.  That  represents  the  victory  over 
oneself  and  a  marvelous  self-control.  And  yet  the  English 
race  represents  predominantly  will  power,  while  the  Latin- 
German  race  represents  intellectualism  and  the  Slav  race 
emotionalism.  No  one  of  the  three  represents  perfection, 
but  if  united  in  the  alchemical  laboratory  of  the  soul  the  three 
would  be  perfection.  When  you  have  these  three  united  in 


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yourself,  then  you  will  be  not  action  alone,  and  not  intellect 
alone,  and  not  sentiment  alone.  If  you  want  to  be  perfect, 
you  must  have  the  three  amalgamated  and  yet  distinct.  If 
you  read  the  Gospel  of  Christ  with  the  intention  to  find  an 
intellectual,  logical  system  in  it,  you  will  be  disappointed. 
You  find  there  just  as  much  action  as  logic,  and  just  as  much 
emotion  as  action.  Mighty  deeds,  mighty  words,  mighty 
emotions !  All  three  in  one.  Whenever  a  divine  teacher 
comes  to  mankind  he  comes  not  to  move  only  the  intellect  of 
man,  as  the  university  professors  do,  but  to  shake  mightily 
the  whole  of  man,  like  a  mighty  wind  which  does  not  shake 
the  bloom  of  the  tree  alone,  and  not  the  twigs  and  branches 
alone,  but  the  whole  tree. 

On  the  larger  scale,  however,  Africa  represents  predomi¬ 
nantly  emotion,  Asia  mind  power,  and  Europe  will  power. 
What  shall  America  represent — America,  this  Galata  Bridge 
of  the  world — if  not  all  the  three,  developed  very  highly  and 
united  very  strongly? 

One-sidedness  is  the  curse  of  the  world.  All  things  in  the 
world  are  subtler  than  they  seem  to  be.  We  thought  the 
atom  was  the  simplest  thing  in  the  world.  But  recently  we 
learn  that  every  atom  consists  of  two  kinds  of  electrons. 
How  careful  then  we  ought  to  be  in  judging  such  a  compli¬ 
cated  machinery  as  a  human  being,  or  a  nation,  or  a  place !  In 
my  village  school  in  Serbia  our  schoolmaster  startled  us  one 
day  with  a  puzzling  question.  “Children,”  he  said,  “can  you 
keep  water  and  fire  together  in  the  same  vessel?”  Of  course, 
we  answered,  “No.”  Then  he  went  on,  saying:  “Then  you 
never  will  be  able  to  understand  life.  For  life  is  water 
and  fire  put  together.”  So  it  is,  my  friends.  I  know  it  now. 
The  more  you  go  to  the  East,  the  more  you  find  God;  the 
more  you  go  to  the  West,  the  more  you  find  man.  But  neither 
God  nor  man  is  our  ideal,  but  God-man.  Not  Jesus  alone,  nor 
Christ  alone,  but  Jesus  Christ.  Your  own  life  is  a  vessel  of 
both  water  and  fire,  or  body  and  spirit.  Look  after  both  and 
take  care  in  right  proportion.  A  divine  humanity  should  be 
your  ideal  and  the  goal  of  your  education.  A  divine  humanity 
we  expect  from  America,  this  second  home  of  all  of  us. 

When  Christ  was  born,  wise  men  from  the  East  came  and 
offered  to  Him  the  best  they  possessed.  With  these  best 


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gifts  of  the  East,  Christ’s  teaching  went  to  the  West;  not  to 
the  East,  because  the  heart  of  the  East  was  in  it,  but  to  the 
West.  Alas,  in  the  West  these  Eastern  gifts  of  the  wise  men 
have  been  largely  lost.  We  must  turn  to  them  once  more. 
They  are  not  lost  in  the  East,  but  carefully  preserved  among 
the  Eastern  wizards.  You  are  wrong  if  you  think  that  Lao-tze 
and  Confucius,  Buddha  and  Zoroaster  have  lost  their  meaning 
for  Christendom.  Unfortunately  for  the  present  Christendom 
they  have  lost  it.  But  I  hope  not  for  always.  There  is 
nowadays  everywhere  a  busy  study  of  the  Eastern  wisdom 
going  on.  And  I  hope  that  Christendom  soon  will  rediscover 
what  gifts  the  wise  men  of  the  East  brought  to  Christ.  One 
of  the  finest  things  that  Lao-tze  said  was,  “Never  good  is 
achieved  by  evil.”  This  message  of  Asia  has  been  forgotten 
in  Europe  altogether.  Those  who  believe  in  wars  and  revo¬ 
lutions  as  the  channels  of  good  are  obscure  and  ignorant 
minds,  having  never  been  enlightened  by  the  gifts  of  the  wise 
men  of  Asia. 

Now  we  hope  America  will  be  this  long-expected  Divine 
Humanity,  before  all  the  world  becomes  it.  Nations  from 
East  and  West,  from  North  and  South,  have  poured  their 
gifts  to  this  country  at  its  birth.  The  question  now  is  whether 
America  is  going  to  use  all  these  gifts,  whether  she  is  going 
to  be  both  Jesus  and  Christ  or  not. 

I  have  been  traveling  through  this  country  during  the  last 
three  months.  What  have  I  seen?  I  have  seen  wonderful 
cities,  the  names  of  which  even  I  had  not  known  before.  Many 
of  them  are  younger  than  myself,  and  still  they  are  more 
striking  than  some  capitals  in  Europe  or  Asia.  They  are  new 
like  dreams,  and  like  dreams  they  are  fair.  It  shows  the  spirit 
back  of  it. 

America  is  cosmopolitan.  Go  down  town  in  New  York 
City  and  you  will  see  your  home  art,  whatever  your  home 
may  be.  America  is  cosmopolitan  in  architecture,  in  music, 
in  literature,  yea,  in  everything. 

The  universities  of  America  have  not  forgotten  God. 
There  is  a  chapel  in  every  educational  institute.  I  hear  much 
of  “Young  China”  being  atheistic.  Goodness,  is  it  possible? 
How  could  one  of  the  wisest  peoples  on  earth  lose  the  vision 
of  God?  We  are  not  alone  in  this  world.  It  is  the  most 


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The  Candle  Ceremony  of  the  Intercollegiate  1 

The  Candle  Ceremony  consisted  of  one  member  from  each  of  the  65  countries  represented  in 
the  Club,  taking  an  unlighted  candle  and  a  placard  on  which  was  printed  the  name  of  his  country  and 
arranging  himself  in  the  line  extending  around  the  room.  The  member  at  the  left  of  the  line  turned 
over  his  card,  so  that  the  name  of  his  country  appeared,  saying  as  he  did  so:  “1  represent  Alaska.” 
Then,  with  the  candle,  he  lighted  the  candle  of  his  neighbor,  the  latter  turning  over  his  card,  saying : 

“  1  represent  Belgium.”  There  was  laughter  and  applause  when  Ireland  announced  itself.  There  was 
a  sort  of  poignancy  in  some  of  the  chance  collocations.  Japan  lighted  the  candle  of  Korea,  and  Korea 


mopolitan  Club,  New  York,  April  24,  1921 

was  clapped.  Russia  got  its  light  from  Roumania,  and  Turkey  its  from  Syria.  Each  candle  was  lit 
from  its  neighbor,  so  that  the  light  that  began  with  Alaska  spread  up  one  side  of  the  room,  across  the 
front  and  down  the  other  side,  clear  to  Venezuela,  until  all  the  candles  were  lighted.  Then  Mr. 
Edmonds,  the  Chairman,  said  :  “  As  light  begets  light,  so  love,  service,  and  good-will  are  passed  on  to 
others.  We  promise  one  another  that  the  light  of  international  friendship  and  good-will  kindled  in  these 
meetings  shall  never  die  out.  We  pledge  ourselves  to  the  extension  of  ‘The  League  of  Hearts’  behind 
‘The  League  of  Nations,’  that  justice,  brotherhood  and  good-will  may  prevail  throughout  the  world.” 


urgent  need  of  the  world  that  the  intellectual  leaders  should 
not  forget  this.  I  should  like  you  to  have  the  vision 
of  the  spiritual  world  as  Mohammed,  Zoroaster,  Buddha, 
Confucius  and  Moses  had,  of  a  world  beyond  this 
material  world,  of  a  light  beyond  this  physical  light.  The 
universities  in  America  have  not  forgotten  God,  I  repeat. 
And  this  is  essential.  I  am  glad  also  that  students  in 
America  are  not  divided  into  political  parties.  I  don’t  believe 
much  in  the  State  universities.  I  am  afraid  they  will  degen¬ 
erate  in  America  as  they  have  in  Europe  on  account  of  their 
political  connections.  I  believe  in  colleges,  in  the  collegiate 
life  of  students,  under  spiritual  and  moral  guidance. 

America  is  a  money-making  but  not  a  money-saving 
people.  We  in  Europe  are  money-saving,  a  greater  curse. 
One  thing  I  have  learned,  that  the  business  people  of  this 
country  are  more  spiritual  than  in  any  other  country  I  know. 
I  spoke  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  St.  Louis,  and  St. 
Louis  is  not  known  as  a  spiritual  center.  But  I  spoke  on  mere 
spiritual  values  of  things.  The  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  followed  me  to  my  room  on  the  fifteenth  floor — 
there  are  no  fifteen  floors  in  Europe.  He  wanted  to  talk.  I 
said,  “I  am  willing  to  talk,  but  only  on  what  I  have  been  dis¬ 
cussing.”  He  said,  “I  think  you  have  in  Europe  the  fight 
between  Caesar  and  Christ.”  We  talked  for  one  and  a  half 
hours — he  stayed  away  from  business  in  order  to  talk  spiritual 
things.  Don’t  speak  of  America  as  a  materialistic  people; 
you  must  go  much  deeper  into  the  thoughts  of  the  people  here. 

There  is  general  respect  for  the  Church  here.  The 
churches  are  divided,  but  they  co-operate.  That  was  a  new 
experience  to  me.  Then  the  preachers  are  not  rich  men — 
that  is  very  good.  In  India  the  priests  are  respected;  among 
Eastern  peoples  the  monks  are  honored  because  they  are  poor. 
The  clergy  of  America  come  mostly  from  poor  people.  Charity 
is  America’s  religion.  And  the  clergy  are  preaching  charity. 

From  many  observations — I  mention  only  a  few — I  have 
found  that  the  chief  tendency  of  the  American  character  is 
constructiveness  and  charitableness.  This  is  the  most  hopeful 
side  of  the  American  civilization.  And  that  is  the  greatest 
gift  we  all  can  take  back  home  with  us. 

The  American  best  brains  today  are  plunged  into  deep 


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considerations.  They  are  making  a  new  program  for  this 
new  world.  They  are  on  a  cross-way.  They  have  to  decide : 
is  America  going  to  be  America  for  herself  and  the  world  for 
America,  or  is  she  going  to  be  for  the  world?  The  youngest 
son  of  Jacob,  Joseph,  saved  all  his  family.  Is  America,  this 
youngest  child  of  human  history,  going  to  save  the  world? 
“Hurry  up!  Hurry  up!”  has  been  not  only  a  human  saying 
in  this  country,  but  God’s  message  to  America  to  spur  her 
and  to  prepare  her  to  be  ready  to  help  all  the  world  in  a  case 
of  grave  emergency.  This  emergency  has  arisen,  and  America 
stands  on  the  pinnacle  of  her  power,  girdled  with  two  belts: 
constructiveness  and  charity.  Is  she  going  to  draw  the  world 
up  to  that  pinnacle,  or  to  darken  her  vision  by  pride  and  to 
fall  down  to  the  swamp  of  the  Old  World?  May  God  help 
America!  May  we  all,  brothers,  help  America  with  whatever 
gifts  we  have,  in  order  that  she  should  fulfil  her  divine  duty. 

When  a  Turk  asks  a  blessing  on  a  Serbian  bishop  (a 
Mohammedan  Turk  had  offered  grace  at  the  beginning  of  the 
meal)  the  world  is  going  to  be  better.  I  should  like  the  Ameri¬ 
can  to  bless  the  Japanese,  the  Frenchman  the  German,  the 
Indian  the  Semite,  the  Japanese  the  Chinese.  The  world 
would  then  be  much  better. 

On  the  gate  of  a  high  school  in  Des  Moines  I  saw  the 
motto  engraved,  “For  the  service  of  humanity.”  That  is  the 
right  motto  for  all  the  educated  people  in  the  world,  I  thought. 
Train  yourselves  not  only  to  be  the  brain  of  your  nations,  but 
also  the  heart  and  the  will  of  them.  Try  your  hardest  to 
train  yourselves  first  in  compassion  towards  humanity,  then 
in  respect  towards  it,  and  finally  in  love  towards  it.  Love  is 
the  highest  gift,  and  you  never  will  reach  it  unless  you  have 
gone  through  the  first  two  stages — compassion  and  respect. 

Be  ready  for  pan-humanity.  The  intellectuals  of  the 
world  are  not  yet  ready — peoples  are.  The  peasants  of  Serbia, 
Russia  and  India  are  ready.  The  intellectuals  are  not  yet 
ready  because  they  are  mere  intellectuals.  Intellect  is  a  curse 
of  the  world — a  destructive  Shiva — unless  it  has  the  light  of 
a  noble  heart  and  of  good-will.  Today  the  biggest  fight  is 
going  on  between  the  capitalists  and  the  proletarians.  Don’t 
wish  the  victory  to  either  of  them.  Whoever  of  them  wins, 
the  world  will  be  a  den  of  lions.  Be  the  richest  in  mind,  the 


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noblest  in  heart  and  the  most  willing,  and  then — then  I  shall 
pray  for  your  victory.  Have  compassion  with  the  wealthy 
of  this  world,  have  respect  for  the  poor,  and  love  both  of  them. 
They  are  equally  sick,  equally  disbalanced.  Whatever  you 
study  here,  do  not  forget  to  study  to  be  spiritual  and  moral 
doctors  of  your  nations.  Go  back  to  them  with  a  smile  of 
a  peacemaker.  As  such  you  are  very  much  needed  there, 
not  otherwise.  Don’t  aspire  to  become  wealthy;  don’t  be 
shy  of  poverty.  Be  the  wealthiest  inwardly,  and  don’t  care 
for  your  external  attire  and  position.  If  you  only  would  heed 
this  word :  be  the  richest  and  the  poorest  at  the  same  time. 
Such  was  the  Man  who  had  no  shelter  in  this  world  and  yet 
possessed  the  command  of  Heaven.  Such  was  also  the  royal 
prince,  Gautama.  Such  was  Socrates.  Such  have  tried  to 
be  all  the  best  patterns  of  human  kind.  And  there  is  a  sen¬ 
tence  of  such  a  one,  which  please  do  engrave  deep  into  your 
hearts,  “Never  good  is  achieved  by  evil.” 


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PAN-HUMANITY  AT  WORK 
IN  NEW  YORK 

By  HARRY  E.  EDMONDS 
Director,  Intercollegiate  Cosmopolitan  Club 
of  the  City  of  New  York 

DURING  the  college  year  1920-1921  there  were  studying 
in  43  higher  institutions  of  learning  in  New  York  City 
516  students  from  Europe  and  the  Near  East,  240  from  China, 
203  from  Latin-America,  147  from  Japan,  87  from  the  Philip¬ 
pines,  and  226  from  miscellaneous  countries — a  total  of  1,419 
students  from  75  countries. 

The  object  of  the  Intercollegiate  Cosmopolitan  Club  is  to 
unite  these  students  for  mutual  benefit  socially,  intellectually, 
and  morally;  to  promote  friendly  relations  between  them  and 
American  students;  and  to  bring  them,  as  guests  from  abroad, 
in  contact  with  the  best  in  American  life. 

This  year  there  has  been  an  active  paid  membership  of 
620  students  from  65  countries  and  41  colleges.  They  have 
held  21  Sunday  suppers,  with  an  average  attendance  of  300, 
and  addressed  by  prominent  persons  on  some  timely  subject 
of  interest  to  such  a  cosmopolitan  gathering;  50  socials  and 
receptions,  with  from  50  to  500  present;  7  national  nights, 
affording  the  opportunity  of  exhibiting  the  music,  manners 
and  costumes  of  the  different  nationalities — attended  by  3,350; 
10  excursions  to  different  places  of  interest — up  the  Hudson, 
around  Manhattan  Island  and  to  industrial  and  municipal 
institutions  in  or  near  the  city — for  1,200;  122  American  home 
dinners,  at  which  1,008  were  entertained;  29  discussion  groups, 
to  afford  an  interchange  of  viewpoint  on  questions  of  national 
and  international  scope,  attended  by  996;  500  students  attended 
simultaneous  social  meetings  in  15  churches — a  total  of  254 
meetings  of  a  social,  educational,  recreational  and  religious 
character  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Club,  with  an  attend¬ 
ance  of  17,000.  The  Club  also  found  lodgings  for  158,  employ¬ 
ment  for  101,  aided  48  in  sickness,  counciled  274  on  personal 
problems,  and  the  officers  and  members  of  committees  met 
large  numbers  on  arrival  and  aided  them  in  numerous  other 
ways.  There  were  203  members  serving  on  committees,  66 


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students  engaged  in  social  service  in  behalf  of  their  fellow 
nationals  of  non-collegiate  type,  and  68  deputations  conducted 
to  churches  and  schools  attended  by  30,000  persons. 

The  most  remarkable  characteristic  of  the  Club  is  some¬ 
thing  that  cannot  be  appraised  in  value  or  tabulated  in  figures. 
It  is  the  fine  spirit  of  neighborliness  and  comradeship  pervad¬ 
ing  this  large  group  of  students  who  are  so  heterogenous  in 
respect  to  national  heritage,  religious  tradition,  economic 
status,  and  social  rank.  One  can  observe  that  spirit  on  every 
occasion  which  brings  them  together.  Such  international 
companionship  is  worth  more  than  tons  of  peace  propaganda. 
As  the  Club’s  members  return  home  and  translate  this  spirit 
into  the  leadership  of  their  respective  countries,  they  will  be 
a  mighty  force,  as  is  suggested  in  the  Candle  Ceremony,  in 
kindling  the  light  that  will  enable  justice,  brotherhood,  and 
good-will  to  prevail  throughout  the  world. 


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THE  INTERCOLLEGIATE  COSMOPOLITAN  CLUB 

Committee  of  Management 

Frederick  Osborn,  Chairman 
Harry  E.  Edmonds,  Secretary 
Hamilton  Holt,  Treasurer 

Wm,  Seaman  Bainbridge  Frederick  Lynch 

Lowell  H.  Brown  Paul  Monroe 

Jeremiah  W.  Jenks  Herbert  Parsons 

Samuel  Thorne,  Jr. 

Directors 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  E.  Edmonds 

Bureaus 


Pan- America 

Manuel  G.  Machado 
Europe  and  the  Near  East 
Kevork  P.  Damlamian 
Alexander  D.  Dodd 
Japan 

Shunto  Sagara 
William  P.  Woodard 


Philippines 

Jose  S.  Reyes 

China 

Herman  C.  E.  Liu 
Donald  G.  Tewksbury 

British  Empire 


Cabinet 


China 

Mr.  H.  C.  E.  Liu 
Mr.  Tingfu  F.  Tsiang 
Miss  Susan  L.  Yipsang 
Japan 

Mr.  M.  Kurihara 
Mr.  S.  Sagara 
Miss  T.  Wada 
Philippines 

Miss  P.  P.  Herrera 
Mr.  A.  L.  Llorente 
Mr.  B.  Panis 
United  States 

Mr.  Walter  D.  Agnew 
Mr.  L.  W.  Leavitt 
Miss  M.  F.  Nelson 
British  Empire 

Miss  L.  M.  Levy 
Mr.  T.  F.  Mackenzie 
Miss  Elizabeth  Olson 
Mr.  T.  B.  Rush 
Miss  Edna  M.  Turner 
Rev.  E.  W.  Wallace 
India 

Mr.  D.  V.  Kirtiker 
Mr.  T.  Rahman 
Mr.  T.  H.  K.  Rezmie 


Peru 

Miss  Z.  E.  Antay 
Mr.  A.  J.  Concha 
Mrs.  Marie  de  Palomino 
Other  Latin-American  Countries 
Miss  P.  Flores 
Mr.  M.  M.  Grau 
Mr.  Renato  Lacayo 
Miss  J.  U.  Molina 
Miss  Laura  Ottoni 
Mr.  R.  L.  Servin 

South  Africa 

Miss  A.  J.  Aucamp 
Near  East 

Mr.  Vahan  A.  Alexander 

Russia 

Mr.  A.  A.  Zazdrawny 
Other  Slavic  Countries 
Miss  A.  Horniic 
Greece 

Mr.  L.  C.  Papas 
France,  Switzerland,  Belgium 
Mr.  E.  D.  Vernier 
S can d i navia n  Coun tries 
Mr.  D.  E.  Kallberg 


Office  of  the  Club 
2929  Broadway- 
New  York  City 


